Category: Off the Wall

Søren Kierkegaard believed that philosophy begins, not with thought, but with existence: an egalitarian life lived passionately within a world of absurdity. George Costanza, the Seinfeldian Everyman who extracted more than should be expected from a life lived absurdly...

Sometimes you need a song that kicks ass and Valentines Night is not one of those times. When the lights go down and the martini shaker comes out, you need a song that lets your significant other know just how sappy and vulnerable you can be. I've tried Led Zeppelin's...

The old man squinted at the sun and spat. He spat and squinted and the time of his grandmother's sister's children rolled across the land and settled at the feet of Noah's father's progeny, the very inhabitants of the Kingdom of Iketombe. Out there across the field...

1   Let It Be Me - Nina Simone 2   The Touch of Your Lips - Chet Baker 3   If You're Young At Heart - Frank Sinatra 4   Time After Time - Margaret Whiting 5   We've Only Just Begun - Carpenters 6   It's Crazy - Sarah Vaughan 7   Love Superstar - Kathleen Smith 8   You...

It’s summertime. Everyone here in Houston is indoors because it’s too @#$%& hot and humid to go outside unless it’s to immerse yourself in a body of water. I’ve heard a lot of music swirling through the house this week, so let’s go around the horn and find out to...

Happy Fourth of July! Today we celebrate the moment we cast off the Cloak of Oppression draped over us by our British Overlords. Had this momentous event not taken place, we would never have experienced The British Invasion. All of that great music that arrived in...

If you were alive in 1993, you heard and saw the Spin Doctors. My daughter – born on the anniversary of Billie Joe McAllister’s leap off the Tallahatchie Bridge – was seven months old when “Two Princes” was released, and she probably knows the song’s lyrics. Well, she...

If you cranked up a television on a Saturday night in the early 70’s and flipped through the channels, you inevitably encountered a show called Hee Haw. And if you lingered there long enough, you beheld a strange and wondrous sight: two men, often standing in a barn...

He came in late one afternoon hot from football practice and raided the Kappa Alpha icebox. He also ate a dozen bananas and washed ’em down with a pint of whiskey. An hour later he was dead. It wasn’t sad at all. - From Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee This week we...